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Historical Event on 11/11/2000
Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/4/1939 | Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, passed away at Philadelphia. |
| 7/1/1961 | Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal. |
| 11/12/1997 | India elected to executive board of UNESCO. |
| 10/25/1932 | Pearless' investment company was established. |
| 2/4/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi released from prison unconditionally at Bombay. |
| 1/3/1996 | Karnataka agrees to release 6 tmc ft. of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, bowing to PM's order. |
| 12/22/1975 | Vasant Krishna Desai, famous music director, died. |
| 12/7/1993 | Lalthanhwala sworn in CM of Mizoram. |
| 11/8/2000 | Queen Ingrid (90), Denmark's Swedish born queen mother and great-grand daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, died in Copenhagen. |
| 3/5/1851 | Geological Survey of India was established in Calcutta. |
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